Fostering the Ontological Turn: Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987)

✍ Scribed by Rosaria Egidi (editor), Guido Bonino (editor)

• Publisher: Ontos Verlag
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Series: Philosophical Analysis 28
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987) was, arguably, one of the greatest ontologists of the twentieth century. In 2006 and 2007, after a period of relative neglect, international conferences devoted solely to Bergmanns work were held at the University of Iowa in the USA, Universit de Provence in France, and Universit degli Studi di Roma Tre in Italy. The fifteen papers collected in this volume were presented at the third of these conferences, in Rome, and are here divided into three sections: "Categories of a realistic ontology," "World, mind, and relations," and "Metaphysics of space and time".

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
INTRODUCTION
Categories of a realistic ontology
Fred Wilson UNIVERSALS, PARTICULARS, TROPES AND BLOBS
Herbert Hochberg THE MATTER OF PARTICULARS
Francesco Martinello BARE PARTICULARS: SOME REMARKS
Pasquale Frascolla ON BERGMANN’S READINGOF THE “TRACTATUS” ONTOLOGY
Erwin Tegtmeier COMPLEXES, NEXUS, AND FUNCTIONSTHE MIDDLE AND THE LATE BERGMANN
Guido Bonino BERGMANN AND EXEMPLIFICATION
World, mind, and relations
Greg Jesson IS INTENTIONALITYMORE LIKE HUNTING OR MORE LIKE HITTING?GUSTAV BERGMANN ON SKEPTICISM AND KNOWLEDGE
Rosaria Egidi BERGMANN’S CRITIQUE OF REPRESENTATIONALISM
Francesco Orilia THE PROBLEM OF ORDER IN RELATIONAL STATES OF AFFAIRS:A LEIBNIZIAN VIEW
Alberto Voltolini SINGULAR PROPOSITIONS AS POSSIBLE STATES OF AFFAIRS
Venanzio Raspa “... THE MOST MEMORABLE DON QUIXOTE OF A GREAT CAUSE”BERGMANN’S CRITIQUE OF MEINONG
Metaphysics of space and time
Laird Addis PARTICULARS AS AREAS AND DURATIONS
L. Nathan Oaklander IS THERE A DIFFERENCEBETWEEN ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE SPACE?*
Giuliano Torrengo TENSELESS TIME VS. TENSED TRUTHMAKERS
Fabio Minocchio – Andrea Pagliardi SOME TROUBLES WITH THE SPECIOUS PRESENTIN BERGMANN’S IDEAL LANGUAGE
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